[ModernMech]

Indeed, I remember a while back there was a TikTok filter going around where it made old people look younger.

One of the people using it said it basically had cured her self-perception issues; she had been bullied for her looks as a child and internalized that she was ugly. But as an adult when she saw her younger face in the app, she realized immediately how the characterization of that face as ugly was just the perception of child bullies.

And it wasn't something that photographs could do for her -- it was the fact that it was her younger face superimposed on her current body, and that it was moving as she moved which gave her a new "way of looking" as you put it. In a sense, AI gave her a chemical-free trip.

[tasty_freeze]

There is a similar thing going on with one type of treatment for amputees that suffer from phantom pain in the missing limb. It uses a box and a mirror positioned such that the subject can see a reflection of their existing arm/hand but the mirror spatially locates it to where their missing arm/hand would be.

It isn't a sure-fire cure, but apparently it offers enough relief to enough sufferers.

https://mirrortherapy.com/how-does-mirror-therapy-relieve-ph...

[GreenWatermelon]

Depending on how I interpret what you wrote, I reach either a negative or positive conclusion.

To start with the negative:

She's basically fooling herself. She's avoiding the real problem of "not accepting herself for who she is, abd changing what can be changed"

IMO, The filtr only shows her a big lie, merely suppressing the pain, and not helping solve the real psychological problem.

On the positive hand, the filter allowed her to break a deeply-ingrained false belief about he past, which helps with one's healing journey.

The question is: does she believe her current looks are pretty?

[ModernMech]

Yeah I think there needs to be some serious research here to answer these questions.